This course offers a solid foundation in key math concepts that are essential for everyday life, academic success, and workplace readiness. You’ll begin by exploring ratios, rates, and proportions, learning how to write and interpret them, calculate unit rates, and apply proportional reasoning to solve real-world problems. These fundamental skills will help you recognize relationships between quantities and make accurate comparisons and decisions.
Next, the course moves into understanding and working with percentages. You’ll be introduced to percents and how they relate to fractions and decimals, followed by practical applications such as calculating discounts, tax, tips, commissions, and interest. You’ll also learn to find what percent one number is of another and determine a whole when given a part and a percent—critical skills in budgeting, shopping, and financial planning.
Finally, you'll gain valuable experience in interpreting and creating statistical visuals. This includes working with line graphs, bar graphs, picture graphs, circle graphs (pie charts), histograms, and tables. You’ll learn how to read legends, analyze data trends, and compare multiple data sets. Whether you're preparing for future studies or looking to sharpen your practical math skills, this course is designed to be both engaging and useful. Join us and build your confidence in understanding the numbers all around you!
What You Will Learn In This Free Course
View All Learning Outcomes View Less All Alison courses are free to enrol, study, and complete. To successfully complete this Certificate course and become an Alison Graduate, you need to achieve 80% or higher in each course assessment.
Once you have completed this Certificate course, you have the option to acquire an official Certificate, which is a great way to share your achievement with the world.
Your Alison certificate is:
- Ideal for sharing with potential employers.
- Great for your CV, professional social media profiles, and job applications.
- An indication of your commitment to continuously learn, upskill, and achieve high results.
- An incentive for you to continue empowering yourself through lifelong learning.
Alison offers 2 types of Certificate for completed Certificate courses:
- Digital Certificate: a downloadable Certificate in PDF format immediately available to you when you complete your purchase.
- Physical Certificate: a physical version of your officially branded and security-marked Certificate
All Certificate are available to purchase through the Alison Shop. For more information on purchasing Alison Certificate, please visit our FAQs. If you decide not to purchase your Alison Certificate, you can still demonstrate your achievement by sharing your Learner Record or Learner Achievement Verification, both of which are accessible from your Account Settings.